Scarves of yellow

I finished weaving up the scarves from the two sun dyed yarns. I used the dyed yarns as the warp and un-dyed yarn of the same type - along with some chemically dyed hand spun wool for a textural difference - as the weft. I got two full length scarves from this project and a bit more I did up as an art piece. I am very happy with how it turned out. Additionally, no dye transferred or was present in the wash water during the fulling of either scarf, so I am confident with the colorfastness of the dye job. One scarf (pictured top and bottom most here) was woven with a very loose weave, the other with a much tighter. The warp was threaded 1,2,3,4,3,2,1 and woven twill.

Welcome to our blog

Hello, I am Julia the newsletter editor and historian for the Spindle and Dyepot guild, New Berlin, Wisconsin. We are trying this out to see how our members like it and maybe you will like it too! Several other people from the guild will be posting on here and hopefully it will become a useful resource.

The above picture is from a recent program we had. Each of us two home seven numbered samples of different breeds and spun them up, we had descriptions of the sheep breeds we received and had to try to figure out which sample was what breed. Here is the view from my wheel. I have a Ladybug wheel and have been spinning for about six years.